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"We are going to die, and that makes us the
lucky ones. Most people are never going to
die because they are never going to be born.
The potential people who could have been
here in my place but who will in fact never
see the light of day outnumber the sand
grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn
ghosts include greater poets than Keats,
scientists greater than Newton. We know this
because the set of possible people allowed
by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of
actual people. In the teeth of these
stupefying odds it is you and I, in our
ordinariness, that are here. We privileged
few, who won the lottery of birth against
all odds; how dare we whine at our
inevitable return to that prior state,
from which the vast majority have never
stirred."
- Richard Dawkins at a UC Berkeley Lecture on Rationality, Philosophy, and Religion

"You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues."
- Richard Dawkins in his Richard Dimbleby Lecture "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder"

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